Today the second episode will go live at 11A PT on http://reinventors.net/series/reinvent-hollywood . We are going to look at the present plight of “The Artist”. We will be joined by ….
In preparation for it I wrote the following blog post:
Is it? I am not sure how to measure this. But not only do I find myself frequently going back to it, every time I see a movie I love or one that is lacking I go back to this post for contemplation. I really should call it in the plural too because I did write an extension of it.
What transforms mediocre into good?
Our discussions on ReInvent Hollywood run 90 minutes (and you can watch the whole thing here), but in this day and age sometimes we only have time to watch ten minutes on the bus. Here are the high points in a highly digestible format:
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“Noah” directed by Walter Woodman & Patrick Cederberg
Jon Reiss, Sherry Candler, Orly Ravid & The Film Collaborative have been doing a tremendous service for the global film community for some time now releasing books that are free to download and address the core problems the indie film world are facing. But they just took it up another step.
By Beanie Barnes
My favorite philosopher wrote that, in order to understand success and analyze what causes it, we need to study the traits present in failure. He pointed out that people who fail do not really write memoirs – generally, publishers do not return their calls nor do readers pay for such stories, even if a story of failure is more valuable than the one of success — just ask the authors of the brilliant book, What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars, which they had to self-publish. This disregard of failure happens a lot in film where we often (and only) celebrate success. That is why it was so amazing that Sundance, at this year’s festival, opened the Pandora’s Box that is “failure.”
